Tag: Slavery

Walter Johnson (Ph.D., History, Princeton University) is Associate Professor of History at New York University. Professor Johnson is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and three books: the award-winning Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1999), The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, 1808-1888 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), and River of Dark Dreams: Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism in the Mississippi Valley (Harvard University Press, forthcoming).

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Princeton University Press, 2000. Chapter 1

Walter Johnson, "On agency" Journal of Social History; Fall 2003; 37, 1.

Walter Johnson, “Time and revolution in African America: Temporality and the history of Atlantic Slavery”, in Thomas Bender (edt), Rethinking American History In a Global Age, University of California Press, 2002.